Tiling

Looking through my scrapbook the other day I couldn't help but notice an awful lot of Moroccan-y tiles that I've torn out of magazines... so I thought I try designing some of my own!

Colourful Cards

Some new card designs that build on one I showed a few weeks ago as part of a competition... now I just need to find someone to publish them!!

Patterned

This week has been very exciting... I've gone part time in my day job to have more time to illustrate and paint. Working from home is taking a bit of getting used to, but it's very exciting! And hopefully it'll mean more work to share here, and more time for posting. These are some patterns I've made for Tigerprint's Male Pattern competition...

Chicken

At the moment cushions seem to me to make good birthday presents for domesticated sisters, this is one I made for my sister Sasha a few weeks ago. She's got lots of chickens in her garden, hence...

Sonya Walters

I was in Penzance, Cornwall the weekend before last visiting my sisters, and we popped into Cornwall Contemporary for a look at their latest exhibition. What really caught my eye was their attic room filled with big Sonya Walters canvases. I hadn't seen her work before and really loved it, so simple and such gorgeous colours and colour combinations. I'm a bit of a sucker for a bright abstract painting, and these ones are just the thing. Here are some others of hers that I've seen online...

Oh Mother

I'm still persistently entering Tigerprint's monthly card design competitions, in the hope that one day I might hit the nail on the head!! Here are the entries I've just submitted (at the 11th hour) for this month's brief - contemporary Mother's Day designs...

For Posterity

I've been working on a new website design and build in the last few months, which has been a steep learning curve, and is now online and up and running. The website is for a great salvage and reclamation yard in the Cotswolds called Posterity, they have all sorts of treasures - furniture, antiques, amazing chandeliers... They're having a bit of a rebrand, and a friend of mine has just opened a café called Salvation on the site. It's well worth a visit if you find yourself in the Ledbury area! Here's a screenshot and link to the website...

Hello Petal

Last week I did a couple of paper cuts as commissions for wedding presents and thought while I had the craft knife out I'd do one to put up in my own flat. I had a black frame waiting to be filled so decided to go monochrome...

By The River

The London Transport Museum have been running an illustration competition for posters showing the Thames, my entry turned out slightly unrealistic but optimistic I'd say!

AAF

A couple of weeks ago I went to The Affordable Art Fair in London and I've been meaning to share a couple of my favourite artists ever since...

Ben Hawkes - I just spotted this one print from a distance but it really made me smile

Jo Lamb - the gorgeous hot colours and loose style of this really drew me in

Beth Richardson - already one of my favourites from last year, I loved seeing her new paintings, lots of beatifully painted big expanses of colour. In fact, I stood staring at them for such a long time that the gallery owner approached me to tell me more about them, which I hate to admit freaked me out a bit (as I couldn't even pretend I could afford to buy one) and I didn't stick around for too much longer. I'm definitely a big fan though!

Moi

I needed a picture of myself to give to my illustration agency the other day, and good photos of me seem to be severely lacking, so I drew me instead. So for those of you who don't know me, this is what I look like, down to the last pixel (!).

Flying The Flag Part II

I moved flat a few months ago, and in the redecorating and furnishing process ended up with a LOT of union jacks in the living room/kitchen (on cushions & breakfast bar stools). And when juxtaposed with Penguin mugs and paintings, a Keep Calm and Carry On poster, and some fridge magnets of traditional British products (Marmite, Colman's mustard, HP sauce etc.), it was all suddenly looking a bit, well, patriotic. So, when we needed a new cushion on the sofa, I decided to throw a bit of the US of A in to the mix to take the emphasis off Britain! And here it is (liberties have been taken with the layout, but its an approximation)...

Chop Chop

Do you know the cookware brand Joseph Joseph? They have a lovely bright, witty range of products. Well, they've been running a competition to design glass worktop savers, I entered the other week so just thought I'd share my entries...

Greetings

Here are a few new card designs I've just been working on this evening, going for a screenprinted effect again...

New Look!

If you've been here before, you might notice that I've had a bit of change around on the blog... the new design ties in with my new website (but was easier to do so is a bit of a sneak preview). Hopefully the website will follow in the next couple of weeks, so watch this space!